Re: corruption in disaster recovery

Gerhard, and all
thanks for the interest


As big brother will confirm, the problem is systemic corruption, whereby
the people who should
investigate and act against corruption, are themselves corrupt and simply
dont do their job

The system of corruption is so widespread, that people who attempt to
recityf it  will either be bought (with money, jobs,
prestige, status quo) or get kicked out of their jobs,
and are given a lot of grief, and they will be publicly discredited with
false inforformation by the cheerleaders of the corrupt system :-)

maybe even shot down brutally or simply disappear (the mafias use acid to
make unwanted bodies go away)

how can that happen?

happens

as any systemist will confirm, to counter a bad system, it is necessary to
create a better bigger good system :-)

Shall we make a start?

Looks like we should set something up, anyone interested in collaborating
on a proposal ? or a seirie of proposals?
https://sites.google.com/site/cachumanitariancrisis/

Please join this group and website :-)

Re. ECSR, I would love to organize a session there on this topic, but
uncertain as  to my physical location at the time

as requested before,  to e able to maximise the reach with limited physical
resources, I think we should have a virtual session at the carious
conferences, maybe even ISCRAM

will liasie with lechhofer and nuwan to that effect, please kindly support
this effort
will cc

Let's wish us Luck

cheers

PDM

P


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Gerhard Chroust <Gerhard.Chroust@jku.at>wrote:

>  Dear Paola!
> I have not seen any research on that - but it is known that quite a bit of
> disaster aid goes into deep pockets.  I do not want to point fingers, but
> ask any RedCross officer (or similar organisations) about their experiences.
> There is also an organisation which ranking nations with respect to their
> corruption structure - so if a country is high on that scale we have
> to expected that people will behave like that in the case of a disaster.
>
> Are you coming to Vienna for the EMCSR 2014.
> I have (again) a session on disaster at EMCSR (see attached call for
> papers).
>
> I will also forward your question to an Austrian Red Cross officer and
> another officer from the Johanniter.
> best regards
> gerhard
>
>
>
>
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> >>> Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> 08.01.2014 13:54 >>>
>
> Cannot remember on which list systemic concerns came up in discussion
> Basically, the corruption system is so strong that involves the highest
> public figures, and the rest just follow the money and do not complain
> about the lack of transparency. Thanks to serious systemic clean up efforts
> of the last twenty years, we now have enough people in the system ready to
> blow the whistle
> quick note below for the record
> is anyone else studying /researching the systemic deviation/corruption in
> emergency management and crisis response?
> happy new year all
>
> PDM
>
>
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> More than 40 Police officers in Aquila, Italy hit by earthquake in April
> 2009 and where reconstruction has been slow due to lack of administrative
> transparency, have carried out searches and issued 4 arrest warrants, for
> crimes of false pretense, bribery, forgery and material and ideological
> embezzlement..
>
> The operation called "Do ut des" or "Eagle Affair"(from the name of the
> city Aquila meaning Eagle) is being instructed by magistrates at the
> request of public prosecutors of L'Aquila Antoinette Picardi and David
> Mancini, and coordinated by the Attorney Fausto Cardella.
>
> The operation, started in November 2012, The operation, started in
> November 2012, confirms the existence of a deeply corrupt system, according
> to which some entrepreneurs interested in the work for the post-earthquake reconstruction
> provided illegal donations in bundles of 500 thousand Euros each
> (mazzette), bestowed to public officials in return for the award of
> contracts from September 2009 to July 2011
>
> The searches are focusing on professional and public administration
> networks where the projects and the funding of post-quake are managed.
> According to investigators, one of the officials involved would allocate to
> some companies engaged in the construction work of reconstruction,
> temporary housing units (Map) which would then be resold.
>
> A total of 8 people under investigation for bribery and post- earthquake
> procurement including deputy mayor of L'Aquila, Roberto Riga, Pierluigi
> Tancredi, director of local health administration body ASL, at the time
> councilor delegate for the recovery and protection of the assets
> constituting the city's artistic heritage, Vladimiro Placido, a former city
> councilor for reconstruction of cultural heritage as well as Director of
> the Consortium of the cultural heritage of the Province of L'Aquila.
>
> Through wiretaps and handling banking account investigators obtained a
> snapshot of the existence of an alleged system of bribes, in particular the
> work for the safety of damaged buildings. The crime is corruption, in which
> bribes were used by entrepreneurs to obtain the award of contracts.
>
> Some suspects are accused of embezzlement for counterfeiting of the stock
> records, the sum of approximately € 1,268,000 relating to the payment of
> part of the work.
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